Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Howard Schultz

We want to stay here. We love this city. We raised our kids here. We built our businesses here and we're being forced to accept a set of circumstances that are not acceptable. We can't continue to lose this kind of money.

Chogyam Trungpa

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Jacob Artist

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Djuna Barnes

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Diane Wakoski

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Dianna Agron

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Jay Blanton

UK has a unique mission and a unique mandate and I think we've articulated the financial needs for meeting that mandate in our business plan and we've been consistent from Day One that that be adequately funded not only to help the university but to help the commonwealth.

Jeb Bush

Where they didn't work, we had supply but it wasn't adequate. It was not adequate for the demand.

Edward Taylor

We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.

Lisa Kelley

We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.

Mary Schiavo

There is no other way to force the FAA to adequately do its job of overseeing the carriers of this country and enforcing aviation safety.

Jim Harrison

Until the court has determined that they conducted an adequate search for my clients' documents, I think the document destruction should cease.

Max Heindel

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

George Andrews

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

Nancy Fox

We're going to enjoy a good semester or two of adequate parking at that time. We have ambitious plans to grow the university. So for the next five years or so, we're going to experience growth pains,

Alan Arkin

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Joseph Quinlan

We've got a strong tone for the market. Expectations for corporate earnings are good, economic growth is good and there's good M&A activity.

Louise Christian

We want to see a prosecution of corporate manslaughter. This report has re-opened that possibility.

Vince Farrell

What the stock market is telling you is that the economy and corporate profits are going to recover sooner than thought.

Lou DiBella

We want his next fight to be in Little Rock, but it would have to make economic sense to us. I need to get a sense of the corporate reaction that, frankly, we haven't seen for the smaller fights in Little Rock. We need a gate that's competitive with Vegas.

Nick Jones

Until now, mobile e-mail has been a senior executive toy. We're at the cusp of when it starts moving from an executive niche market to a mainstream corporate market.

Scotty George

What we're seeing today and what we have been seeing for the last week is a drying up of sentiment as investors wait for some definitive resolution of world events and some new corporate catalysts.

Ron Hill

We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter.

Ronald Hill

Three things out there: very, very positive liquidity, a growing economy, and rising corporate profits. Put those three things together stock prices have only one way to go and that's up.

Joe Crawford

We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Desarae Garland

I expected a lot of parties, different cultures and seeing people sticking with others from their hometown.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Brian Sewell

Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied,

Jan Wright

I think he gives us a little window into what it took to be a pioneer in terms of the material cultures and the thought processes that went into voting and where he gave his business.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Desiree Manuel

For example, one student put together a drumming group to show how different cultures drum.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

Terry Anderson

She was doomed from the start. I can't imagine Gale isn't tremendously disappointed.

Britt Beemer

I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,

Lisa Wathne

Had this little lion lived, he would have been doomed to a life of extreme confinement and boredom.

Jerome Charyn

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

Jon Johansen

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Chuck Palahniuk

you're doomed at being you.

David LaBahn

When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.

Victor LaValle

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Al Neuharth

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Louis C. K.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't climb the ladder of success...

Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Geoffrey Kors

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

L. Neil Smith

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

Allyce Najimy

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

Nick Robinson

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

Shen Si

So far, we have just been notified by our shareholders about such an internal deal, which is still pending on our board's permission.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is an internal Russian problem to be solved between the Chechen people and the Russian federation.

Allen Freeman

Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.

Anthony Zinni

That decentralization was done so they insured they had control, ... I think it was done more for internal reasons and internal military problems they thought they might have than for any military preparations they had for us.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

J. J. Johnson

Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code. Taxation, basically. It's what tripped up Al Capone.

Michael McCabe

We're always doing internal reviews, ... This is our business. We take it very seriously. If there is a way to do it better, we do it. Safety and security are our number one priority.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Lord Shaftesbury

Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

George Will

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

Khaled Hosseini

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Chip Conley

I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.

Diane Watson

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Catherine Ashton

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Blanche Lincoln

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

Betty White

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

David Vitter

We should demand that (Customs and Border Protection) focus on the true priority that we face on the war on terror... Stripping small amounts of prescription drugs from the hands of seniors... that should not be a priority.

Barney Frank

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

Derek Bok

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Bruce Lewis

We've tried to set it up where we put teams together that are pretty evenly matched.

Bob Lennon

We'll see the course, and we'll see most of the teams that we'll see at district, too.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.